Baystate Masonry & Construction Boston

Baystate Masonry & Construction is a family-run masonry and driveway outfit based in Cambridge, working stonework, patios, chimney repair, and foundation and basement waterproofing across Cambridge and Boston. The company describes itself as family-owned with generations of experience, though it doesn't name who actually runs it day to day. Its Google page carries nine ratings and every single one is five stars, an aggregate sentiment near the top of the scale. The most recent write-up, from May, praises the crew for the care they took restoring a roof — a reminder that a masonry shop like this often gets called for adjacent exterior work too. Beyond that one account, the ratings stretch back to 2023 across a handful of sites, a consistent run but still a short one — not yet the kind of deep, multi-year history that makes a five-star average feel like a sure thing. The one fact that's independently confirmed is the license: its Massachusetts Home Improvement Contractor registration is active. The rest — the family ownership, the years of experience, even the claim of covering both Cambridge and Boston — comes from the company's own site, so it's worth a direct question rather than an assumption. For stonework, a retaining wall, chimney repair, or basement waterproofing in the Cambridge/Boston area, this is a reasonable name to call, backed by a clean license and an unbroken run of five-star ratings. Given how thin the independent history still is, ask for a couple of recent, checkable references before committing to anything beyond a small job.